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<figure> <a href=" <img alt="" class="img-responsive" src=" /> </a> </figure> <h5>Prediction markets are courting controversy—and allegations of insider trading—by taking bets on the Iran war. Gambling on human life may be venal, but it isn’t new</h5> <p>By Stuart Jeffries</p> <p><span class="drop-cap">W</span>hen Ayatollah Ali Khamenei’s Tehran compound was reduced to rubble by an Israeli strike, at the end of February, a Polymarket user called magamyman netted around $5...